It is not surprising that throughout history, God has often called on his people to come together and humble themselves through prayer and fasting. When God’s people fast and pray, the spiritual progress becomes tangible. Nations change, revivals spark, people experience freedom on every level. It changes the future because it changes the people involved.

Thus the heads-up: prepare yourselves. As Jesus taught, you don’t go into a battle unless you have the resolve and the resources to complete it. Take the next little while to carefully think about what level of participation you can commit to regarding the fast. What type of fast can you do in the seven days? Look at your schedule and consider limiting physical and social activities so you can participate. For additional information about what you can do to prepare for next week’s fast, click here.

Download the 2012 Fasting Guide: this is the manual that will be used to guide next week’s fast. Please print a copy for yourself and for others in your household who will be participating.

Dates: January 16 – January 22

Prayer Schedule:

During the fasting week, certain evenings will be set aside to gather and pray. If you have children, consider having them join you for a small part of a corporate prayer time so they may be part of the experience.

Monday, January 16:

• 6:30 – 8:00pm at the Macatula’s home

Tuesday, January 17:

• 6:30 – 8:00pm at Debie’s home

Wednesday, January 18:

• 6:30 – 8:00pm at Ope’s home
• 7:00 – 9:00pm at the Reding’s home (49 Tuscany Hills Bay NW)

Thursday, January 19:

• ‘Unite the Light’ prayer and worship from 7:00 – 8:00pm at the UofC room EDC179
• Corporate Prayer from 7:00 – 9:00pm at the UofC room EDC280

Friday, January 20:

• 6:30 – 8:00pm at the Macatula’s home (contact Rodelyn at  rcmacatula@yahoo.com for address)

Saturday, January 21:

• 6:30 – 8:00pm at the Macatula’s home (contact Rodelyn at  rcmacatula@yahoo.com for address)

Sunday, January 22: (break the fast)

• 10:35am – 12:30pm at the UofC (room ST148)

For ongoing worship CD updates, click here!

For more than 10 years, Leland Nelson has served as our worship leader at UChurch. His songs, his spirit, and his passion for God have inspired many to follow Jesus and abandon themselves to Him in worship. This year, Leland has written more than 30 unique songs, all of them God-breathed.

Concerning his music Leland believes, “But my life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus – the work of telling others the Good News about God’s wonderful kindness and love.” ~ Acts 20:24

Leland, along with his wife, Heather, have a desire to record these songs and produce a worship album that might bless not only our UChurch community, but many others around the world. As their church family, this is our opportunity to become part of Leland and Heather’s God-given dream, and to support them in the journey of creating a worship album. The goals of this album project are:

• To glorify God. The songs on the album are for God’s people – everywhere – to worship and glorify Him;
• To raise funds through the sale of the album for ongoing missions and evangelistic outreach work on campus, in our city, in our country, and “to the ends of the earth”;
• To provide an inspirational and equipping tool for outreach that presents the gospel and our love for Jesus in words and music.
• To commemorate the work that God has done in and through our UChurch community over the past year. The songs God has given reflect our life together as a community and may be seen as stones that, together, become an altar commemorating all that God has done.

In order to make this dream a reality, partnership in terms of both prayers and finances are needed. To be added to the Worship Album Prayer Updates list, email worship@uchurch.ca. And to donate to the album project and contribute to the $34,000 goal, visit http://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPage.aspx?gpID=10279 (select “Worship CD” in the funds designation box).

*Water & Rocks painting (thumbnail image) by Heather Nelson*